World Book Trivia Challenge Advanced: Rivers - Australia

The Danube’s beauty inspired Austrian composer Johann Strauss, Jr., to write the famous waltz "On the Beautiful Blue Danube."

The Amazon River carries more water than any other river and more than the Mississippi, Nile, and Yangtze rivers together. Each year, the Amazon delivers 15 percent of the fresh water that enters the ocean.

Jordan rises in the springs of Mount Hermon in Syria and empties into the Dead Sea. The river is 320 kilometres long.

The Macquarie River rises on the western slopes of the Great Dividing Range near Oberon.

The Mekong is about 4,180 kilometres long. It flows southeastward from China's Qinghai province and forms part of the boundary between Thailand and Laos.

Victoria Falls lies between Zambia and Zimbabwe, about halfway between the mouth and the source of the Zambezi River.

The Rhine serves as a means of transporting goods through central Europe.

The Volga is the most important river in Russia and the longest river in Europe. It flows 3,700 kilometres through western Russia.

Huang He, means yellow river. The earth carried by the river is deposited in such large amounts at the river's bottom that it raises the bed and causes the river to change its course often.

The Indus River rises in Tibet north of the Himalaya. It flows northwest, west, and southwest, from Tibet through both Indian- and Pakistani-held areas of Kashmir, and then through Pakistan.